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by chroma 7y ago
I knew before I clicked on the link that it would be a contrapoints video. I’ve seen it before and let’s just say I don’t find it compelling. It’s your typical youtuber taking clips out of context, misinterpreting them (possibly deliberatel
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by chroma 7y ago
> Second, part of the problem here is that these platforms are a) open and b) can push this content, including to minors. I'd probably be willing to have Youtube and twitter thave _no_ censorship but in exchange the platforms should
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by chroma 7y ago
I'm talking about the Canadian hate speech laws, not censorship on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. I'd like it if companies would take down less stuff. Put up warnings and stop recommending certain content, sure. But don't m
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by chroma 7y ago
> Freedom of speech has always been qualified, and this argument does not change it. At best it succeeds in arguing for free speech restricted to certain platforms, and the hate speech laws still allow for free speech to private audience
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by chroma 7y ago
Back in 2007 Christopher Hitchens argued that Canada's hate speech laws are not only immoral but self-contradictory. The motion: "Be it resolved: Freedom of speech includes the freedom to hate." Hitchens was fully in favor of
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by chroma 7y ago
> Well, they tried that, and then we got all of this revolving door nonsense where, to use an example closer to home here, former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai is now running the FCC as a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon Communications. That
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by chroma 7y ago
I don't understand why this is downvoted so much. If we're going to apply the three filters (Is it kind? Is it necessary? Is it true?), the parent comment seems to fulfill two of them. Can someone chime in and educate me?
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by chroma 7y ago
I adapt by taking Uber/Lyft instead. I got fed up with crazy people threatening and attacking me on public transportation. Thankfully, I'm fortunate enough that I can afford to be driven around. I hope that in the future such a pl
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by chroma 7y ago
A disengagement doesn't necessarily mean that the car would have crashed. There are amusing disengagement stories such as a cyclist doing a track stand, causing the car to get stuck.[1] Many disengagements are false positives. Think of
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by chroma 7y ago
The 1995 result was nowhere close to what we have today. 158km was the maximum distance between disengagements. Waymo's average distance between disengagements is over 100x that, and they're going on more than just highways.
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by chroma 7y ago
Rodney Brooks is misleading. He says things like, "It was actually done in Germany in 1987." but neglects to mention that the road had no other cars on it.[1] He also claims that the first autonomous coast to coast drive happened
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by chroma 8y ago
> Meat is a rich source of protein and energy. We don't need any more justification than that to want to eat other animals. Jonathan Swift argued the same in A Modest Proposal [1]: > I have been assured by a very knowing America
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by chroma 8y ago
I think they will, but only once compelling meat substitutes become affordable. Even then, I think most of future society's condemnation will be for eating meat, not for animal experimentation. By comparison: When people talk about the
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by chroma 8y ago
I doubt it, but only because from a utilitarian standpoint, using animals for research purposes is not even a drop in the bucket. Humanity slaughters billions of animals each year just because they're tasty. At least the research anima
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by chroma 8y ago
Calling it "nonviolent communication" is a brilliant marketing move, as it implies that not conversing in this manner is violent. I've seen this style many times in my career, and it always comes off as patronizing. It also t
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by chroma 8y ago
Or gum. Or patches. Or lozenges. Or go buy another vape or recharge your battery. You'd have to go out and buy the cigarettes anyway. It's not like they magically appear in your home.
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by chroma 8y ago
I've seen this opinion dozens of times and the best response is a Slate Star Codex post from 2013[1]: > The worst are the people – one of whom has so far appeared in every article I have read on the subject – who say that we should
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by chroma 8y ago
> If people are screaming at you or smoking meth on the bus, that’s indicative of broader social problems which aren’t really solved by changing the transportation system. Knowing the proximate cause doesn't help me avoid crazy peop
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by chroma 8y ago
I could use that same logic to refute a study showing public transportation is cost-effective as long as that study wasn't done in San Francisco. It would be an obviously incorrect argument in that case, and that is also true in your c
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by chroma 8y ago
> Life in a place where all or nearly all trips can be made without needing to drive a car is very pleasant, especially for anyone who isn’t an able-bodied high-income adult. I've found the exact opposite to be true. Cars are great
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by chroma 8y ago
Instead of nitpicking, we can just look up the actual calculations.[1] They're on the order of 20 cents per mile traveled. Half of that is crashes, which insurance already covers. Most of the rest is congestion costs. Air pollution and
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by chroma 8y ago
It's circular logic to assume the externalities are ridiculous, therefore we must price cars into the realm of ridiculousness. If you want your argument to be more than cheering against cars, you should actually calculate the externali
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by chroma 8y ago
People would just get their cars registered as delivery vehicles. NYC already has rampant abuse of placards and literal "get out of jail" cards. A ban on personal vehicles wouldn't go any differently than those.
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by chroma 8y ago
It is my opinion that Lennart Poettering is the software equivalent of Thomas Midgley Jr., the inventor of both leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons.[1] This is the person behind PulseAudio, Avahi, and systemd. In any sane world, these
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by chroma 8y ago
I avoid BART as much as possible because of the filth and crazy people. Often the escalators are broken because they're clogged with human feces.[1] And that's just with homeless people sleeping outside the stations or on the cars
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by chroma 8y ago
Although Ocasio-Cortez minored in economics, she doesn't seem to understand simple concepts such as unemployment rates. In a recent interview[1], in response to a question about how low unemployment rates undermine her message of the w
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by chroma 8y ago
> My lived experience is that once you do mix-and-match enough markings to be seen as female, folks will eagerly accept that and ignore whatever “contradictory” signs might be there. Looking at height, for example, it’s not any weirder t
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by chroma 8y ago
That's not the case. Only one of Skylake's decoders can translate complex x86 instructions. The other 4 are simple decoders, and can only transform a simple x86 instruction into a single µop. At most, Skylake's decoder can em
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by chroma 8y ago
I don't think that's an advantage these days. The bottleneck seems to be decoding instructions, and that's easier to parallelize if instructions are fixed width. Case in point: The big cores on Apple's A11 and A12 SoCs c
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by chroma 8y ago
Being disinvited from a conference is the least of it. If he wasn’t the founder of his own company, he would have lost his job. In 2016, security escorted him off the SF Google campus when he visited a friend for lunch. Apparently his name

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